English Department Celebrates New Publication: The English Department invites you to celebrate the publication of "Rural Literacies" by Kim Donehower, with her co-authors Charlotte Hogg (Texas Christian University) and Eileen Schell (Syracuse University) on Tuesday September 18, at 4:00pm at the North Dakota Museum of Art. Dr. Donehower is an Associate Professor of English and a member of the Graduate Faculty.

Graduate School offers Students and Facutly the Chautauqua Series:

The Graduate School is pleased to announce a new series of meetings offering Graduate Students & Faculty opportunities to engage in semi-formal discussions on academically related matters. A core working group of graduate faculty and students has worked to define a series which we hope will become an important part of UND academic culture.

The series of workshops entitled "The Graduate School Chautauqua Series", will occur at 3 week intervals throughout the Fall and Spring. The workshops will begin with a light lunch at 11:30am followed by the discussion at 12:00pm.

The Fall series will focus on Instruction. Collectively we will examine topics of who we are as students and instructors, how we assess learning, and the professional boundaries that sometimes limit our ability to truly function as a community of scholars.

The Spring series will examine the academic tradition of dissemination of creative scholarship.

Participation by graduate students and faculty is widely encouraged. We hope to develop The Graduate School Chautauqua Series as a forum that is embraced by the UND community of scholars - a place where we continue to question and to learn.

The next meeting will be September 27 in Swanson 10-12. Dean of Students, Lillian Elisinga, and others will speak on the topic, "Getting to Know Our Students I: Graduate Students". Check the schedule for upcoming workshops.

CILT invites GTAs to Blackboard Workshops:

The UND Center for Instructional & Learning Technologies (CILT) is offering free instructional classes for Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants covering topics from Blackboards ability to create blogs to how to use Podcasts in the classroom. Participants will be able to receive hands-on knowledge this month on:

Creating courses in Blackboard
Presenting content in Blackboard
Blackboard's ability to utilize Wikis
Blackboard's ability to utilize Blogs
Introduction to Podcastings
What’s new in Blackboard
Communicating with Students Using Blackboard

Courses occur at different times of the month throughout the course of the semester. To see a full list of courses offered during September, view the CILT website at http://www.cilt.und.nodak.edu/workshops/index.html. Watch this space for monthly offerings.

Graduate School Staff attend International Admissions workshop in San Francisco: Graduate School Admissions staff members, Brenda Halle and Staci Wells attended the World Education Services Workshop for International Education Professionals in July. The World Education Services is North America's leading resources of information and insight on international education and credentials. For over thirty years, WES has helped educators improve their overseas recruiting, streamline their admissions procedures, reduce costs and strenghten their assessment of international credentials.

Graduate Teaching Internships in the Sciences - Tribal College Placement: The North Dakota Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program supports a graduate teaching internship (GTI) to provide intensive teaching experiences for advanced graduate students in the biological and physical sciences at NDSU and UND. The GTI provides an opportunity for students to develop their teaching skills and enhance their resumes.

Graduate students will teach in the sciences at a participating North Dakota tribal college. They will receive $13,000 for one semester and will also be eligible for a $2,000 room and board supplement. Approximately 20 hours/week of teaching service (including laboratories, course preparation, teaching, and other academic service) is expected.

Five positions are available for Spring semester of 2008 in the subject areas of biology, chemistry, and physics. Preference will be given to applicants who are nearing completion of their Ph.D. degrees, although applications will be considered from all graduate students in the sciences. Graduate credit is being arranged from UND for this service.

Application deadline (all materials): October 1, 2007
Application materials available at www.ndinbre.org/gti2007.htm

For further information, contact: Dr. Katherine Sukalski, UND, at 777-4049 or sukalski@medicine.nodak.edu

Congratulations to the 2007-2008 Graduate School Scholarship recipients: Each year The Graduate School awards several scholarships to current students. We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following awards. We wish them well in their academic pursuits:

• Alumni Prize - Alex McEllistram Evenson, Department of English
• George & Margaret Seaworth Scholarship - Tracy Wright, College of Nursing
• Neil C. Macdonald Scholarships - Robert Vandenberg, Department of History & Nicole Green, Department of Social Work
• Satrom Endowment - Diane Wolter, Department of Educational Leadership
• Chester Fritz Scholarships - Pamela Beck, Department of Educational Leadership; Jennifer Heth, Deparment of History; Ryan Klapperich, Department of Geology; and Lisa Peterson, Department of Psychology.
  

Watch for the announcement in January/February for the 2008-2009 scholarships. Application details will be posted on The Graduate School Web site and in the E-letter.

Guidance on Requesting Graduate Student Tuition from Grants

Effective this semester (Fall 2007), the University has disassociated graduate student tuition waivers from stipends for Graduate Assistants. As a result of this change, Graduate Assistants are no longer guaranteed a tuition waiver. A pool of tuition waivers was created for Graduate Assistants and allocations to colleges have been provided. The new tuition waiver policy does allow for tuition to be paid from grants or other extramural funding sources as long as the funds are used in accordance with the policies and procedures of UND and the funding agency. Unless other arrangements have been made at the time of grant submission, the University expects that that all new grants and grant renewals request tuition for graduate students when such expenses are allowable by the funding agency. We recognize that currently active awards as well as those that have been submitted prior to the date of this announcement may not include graduate student tuition. For these projects institutional commitments that were made for tuition will be honored.

For budget planning purposes, the cost of tuition requested should be $14,433 for the 2007-08 academic year. This covers full-time non-resident tuition for 1 full year (24 credits/year). Fringe benefits for Graduate Assistants are $625 (the cost of health insurance).
For multi-year grants, stipends and tuition should be incremented by 5% per year. The amount of tuition remission provided to any given student cannot exceed the number of credit hours on their approved Program of Study.

For questions and further information, contact the Dean of The Graduate School or the Office of Grants & Contracts Administration.

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